And unfortunately, working not one job, they are unfortunately, media in this working two jobs, three jobs. Country for a variety of you have people working longer reasons, largely because they hours for lower wages. Are owned a major corporations we are going to create an cases. Deal in most economy that protects the needs there are great exceptions but of our workers, our children, they do not deal with the our seniors, our veterans. Reality realities of our lives in a way that we need to all of the people of this be discussing. Country and not just the 1 . [applause] [applause] you a fewt give examples of what i mean and what does that mean . Hard thing tod thing ta our thio making it really relevant to life here in West Virginia. I have been all over this country and the things that i do . It is not. Have seen are incredibly heartbreaking. In america, if you work 40 hours i went to flint, michigan where a week, you should not be living children are being poisoned by in poverty. Lead in the water that they are we will raise the minimum wage drinking. To 15 an hour. [booing] [applause] i have been to detroit, michigan mean millionsll where their Public School system is on the verge of a fiscal collapse. Of people will be able to support their families with the kind of dignity and security [booing] i have been to baltimore, maryland where tens of thousands that they do not have today. Of people are addicted to [applause] heroin. [audience boos] second, when we talk about equitable wages, we wil ll end i know that addiction is a problem here and we will get to bsurdity of women making that in a second. The point is never forget it we are the wealthiest country . 79 on the dollar compared to men. [applause] joinw every man here will with the women in the fight for in the history of the world. Pay equity. But, most people in our country do not know that because almost all of the new income and wealth [applause] is going to the top 1 . Ratesnemployment throughout this country are extremely high, especially in [audience booing] areas,nd rural we are the wealthiest country in the history of the world and that means that Public School systems should not be collapsing. Youth unemployment in this and when people are not making country should not be 30 , 40 enough income to support their or 50 . Toilies, it is a nobrainer our infrastructure should not be disintegrating. Suggest we need a program to put our people back to work. [cheers and applause] [applause] West Virginia we as a people have got to ask and all over this country, our infrastructure, our roads, some very hard questions and bridges, water systems, then have the guts to take on wastewater plants, rail systems, some very powerful people. Levies and dams are in massive disrepair. You know, a great nation is not we can create 13 million jobs with a 1 trillion investment. Judged by the number of [applause] well, people say, yeah, that is billionaires it has or the number of Nuclear Weapons it a nice idea. Has. Our infrastructure is crumbling, it is judged by how it treats but how will you pay for it . The weakest and most vulnerable i will tell you. Amongst us. Right now, we have a corrupt federal tax system that allows [cheers and applause] major corporations, major corporations who make millions it is not acceptable to me that of dollars a year in profits to in america we have the highest stash their profits in the rate of childhood poverty of cayman islands, bermuda and almost any major country on other tax havens. We are going to end that tax earth. That is not the way we should be treating the young people of loophole. This country. 100 billion a year we invest into the infrastructure. [cheers and applause] [applause] right here in West Virginia, your beautiful state, 100,000 when we talk about the economy, children in this great state we have got to talk about something that media almost never talks about. Live in poverty. Anis not a sexy issue, but over 24 of the total number of enormously important issue and kids right here in west that is our disastrous trade virginia. Policy. [audience boos] tell the young when we talk about employment, officially unemployment in people something they may not america is supposed to be 5 , know. That is there was actually once a time, not so many years ago, but you know that is not the case. When you can go to a Department Real unemployment is much higher uy products than that. [applause] in fact, right here in west manufactured in the united virginia, this state has the states of america. [applause] trade policies Lowest Labor Force Participation rate in the country. Like nafta and trade relations with china, policies written by Corporate America, what happened is Companies Shut down plants in vermont, west in fact, only 54 of the working virginia, all over the country. Age population in this state has a job. When we talk about the grotesque they said why what i want to pay somebody 15, 20 an hour when i level i talk about this a lot when i talk about the can go to china or mexico and grotesque levels of income and pay people pennies . Wealth inequality, West Virginia that is what they did. Is almost at the top of that lostresult, we have list. Millions of decent paying jobs. Millions. One of the big differences between secretary clinton and myself she supported virtually every one of these disastrous trade agreements. Again, again, this is a national i have opposed them all. Problem. Believe me, it exists in my state of vermont. Our message to Corporate America this is an issue we have to deal with in every state of this is you want us to buy the country. Listen to this from 1979 to products you make . 2012, the top 1 of the people make these damn products here in West Virginia and america. [applause] in West Virginia saw their income go up by more than 60 on average, while the bottom 90 saw their income go down. [audience boos] this campaign is going to win go down by 4 10 of 1 . Because we are listening to that is what we are seeing all over america. Voices are not we have an Economy Today that is often heard. Doing really, really great if one of the groups of people that you are in the top 1 . I have been very proud to listen if you are in the bottom 90 , to all over this country is young people. The likelihood is you are [applause] working longer hours for lower wages, if you are lucky enough to have a job. It is a funny thing. [applause] when we began this campaign, the general attitude of the pundittrry was that young people i want everybody here to know this is not just im using are not interested in government, politics. West virginia statistics tonight because im here this is a they are too busy with their video games or whatever else National Issue and that is why they do. Together we are going to create well, it turns out that the an economy that works for all of young people of this country are a lot smarter than many of the our people, not just the people pundits thought. On top. [applause] [cheers and applause] it turns out that the young a couple of years ago, i was people understand they are the chairman of the subcommittee in future of this country and they the senate. Want to help shape that future. We did a hearing on poverty as a [applause] death sentence. You know what i mean by that . Young people understand that there is something profoundly wrong when in this country this is what i mean by that. When you hear about people being poor, people say that is too today, the young generation may bad. Be the first generation in the they dont have a good car, their housing is not good. Then dont have enough money to go out and eat. Modern history of america to being poor is much more than that. Have a lower standard of living what being poor is about in than their parents. America is you die at a significantly lower age than [booing] that is right. My father came to this country at the age of 17 with no money. People who have money. He worked hard and my mom worked hard. Kids would was their be financially better off than [audience boos] they were. That is called the american Mcdowell County in West Virginia is one of the poorest counties dream that millions of american in the United States of america. Families have experienced. Parents work hard so their kids can do better than they. The United States of america being the richest country in the [applause] history of the world. In Mcdowell County, 77 of the children under 18 are living in and together, together, that poverty in the United States of American Dream, that american america. [audience boos] dream we will not allow to die. [applause] in Mcdowell County, men can only expect to live until the age of 63. Now, i want you to think about there is another issue that this. Again, being poor means not just young people all over the country talk to me about. That you have the big flat they say we did what our parents screen tv or the fancy car, it told us to do, what our teachers means you are dying at a significantly lower age. Told us to do and that is go out and get the best education that if you drive six miles north we can. From this county, you are going because we all understand that learning and education is to Fairfax County, virginia. Inherent in who we are as human in Fairfax County, men live on beings and that also for our average until the age of 82 years of age. Country to do well in the future, we need the best educated workforce in the world. [applause] 18 years more than men live in Mcdowell County. Millions of young people did the [audience boos] right thing. They went to college, but then what happened is they left the average Life Expectancy for a woman in Fairfax County is 85. 50 thousand00, in Mcdowell County, it is 73 years of age. 0, 70,000 in debt. Its not just Mcdowell County. We have counties like them. I have talked to people who are all over the country. These are issues of inequality paying off that debt for that as a nation we have got to decades. They cant afford to buy a car,a kidsse, get married, have address. Because they are paying off that debt. What crime did they commit for [cheers and applause] getting an education . That is nuts. You know, one of the issues that [applause] i talk about a whole lot and is directly related to poverty, to unemployment is the fact that we all of you know that 40 or 50 have a broken criminal Justice System. Years ago, if you had a high [applause] school degree, the likelihood again, what this campaign is was you were able to go out and get a halfway decent job and asking all of you is to think make it into the middle class, outside of the box. With a high school degree. The world has changed, the economy has changed, technology has changed. Think outside of the status quo. People today need more education think beyond the options that corporate television allow you than they did 50 years ago. To choose. [applause] to envisage. Thinking outside of the box, [applause] think about why people in outside of the status quo leads Mcdowell County die at a significantly lower age than you to a very simple conclusion. People in wealthier communities. Think about why it is in city 50 years ago, it was great we after city in america, we have had free Public Education from first grade to 12th grade, but the world has changed. Youth unemployment levels of 40 , 50 , 60 and that relates when we talk about Public Education today, it must mean making public colleges and to an International Universities tuitionfree. Embarrassment that we have more [applause] people in jail than any other country on earth. [audience boos] think for a moment, there are people who have attacked me on this. This is the United States of it is a radical idea. America. We should have the best educated this is not a radical idea. People in the world. [cheers and applause] it exists in countries like germany already and scandinavia. Our people should have decent they understand that investing paying jobs, not rotting in in their young people is jail. Investing in the future of their country. [cheers and applause] [applause] this campaign is going to win by the way, you may not know because we are doing something unusual. This, but 50 years ago in the we are talking to the American People and not just a wealthy United States of america, our campaign contributors. Major, great public colleges and universities were virtually tuitionfree. If we could have virtually free [cheers and applause] tuition 50 years ago, we damn when i talk about unpleasant truths that all of us have to well can do it today. Address, truth number one is that we have a corrupt campaign [applause] finance system which is undermining american democracy. Once again, this proposal which [cheers and applause] think outside of the box. Also includes dealing with the what does democracy mean . Crisis of student debt today, because we have millions of it is not a complicated concept. People dealing with student it means you have a vote, you debt, our proposal will allow have a vote, you have a vote. Majority wins. Democracy does that mean the people with student debt Koch Brothers and a few other to refinance their loans at the lowest Interest Rate they can billionaires can spend hundreds find. Of millions of dollars to buy [applause] elections. Curiosity, how many people are carrying student debt [cheers and applause] right now . We are going to lower that that is not democracy, my student debt. [applause] friends. That is called now, my critics say, hey, bern oligarchy. If we do not turn things around, ie, you are nice guy giving out free tuition. We will increasingly see an you will lower student debt. Economy and a government run by a handful of billionaires and together we where are you going to get the will not allow that to happen. Money . Here is the point. I want you to think outside of the box. [cheers and applause] this is not the dynamic that the media provides. You have to think through this stuff and you can. Eight, nine years ago as a result of the greed, but, it is not just a corrupt recklessness and Illegal Campaign finance system that we behavior on wall street, the are going to have to address, it is a rigged economy. Congress bailed out the big banks. [booing] this is what a rigged economy apparently, there was plenty of money available to bail out means. It means today listen to this large banks who were too big to fail. The top 1 10 of 1 , not 1 , whenieve that right now wall street is doing quite well, now owns almost as much wealth thank you, we should impose a as the bottom 90 . Tax on wall street speculation. [cheers and applause] [applause] [audience boos] that tax alone, that one tax in America Today, the wealthiest 20 people own more wealth than alone will bring in more than the bottom half of america. Enough money to substantially 150 Million People. In America Today, one family, the Walton Family of walmart, lower student debt and make public colleges and universities tuitionfree in ithis one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 of the american country. People. [applause] now, wall street may not like it, but you know what . [cheers and applause] i could care less what wall street likes. [applause] [audience boos] you know what i say . I say enough is enough. And, by the way, when we make [applause] but, it is not only an unfair distribution of wealth. It is income as well. I want to say this to the young public colleges and universities people who may not believe me. Tuitionfree, we do something that is really revolutionary. I want you to think about this. I want you to google it after you get out of here, not now. Right now in my state and right here in West Virginia, you have here is the facts. A lot of kids who are growing up 40 years ago before the poor, whose parents never went to college and these kids can explosion of technology, before the cell phones and the space age technology, before the ever imagine they will go to college. Global economy, it was possible if we can make it clear to the in america for one breadwinner parents and the teachers and the children that any kid in this country who studies hard, who to earn enough money to take does his or her schoolwork w care of the entire family. One breadwinner could earn ell, those kids will be able to get a higher education. [applause] enough money to take care of the entire family. Then, you got the whole global economy, all of the technology and you know what happens . That is revolutionary. Today, mom and dad are working, the kids are working and they have less disposable income than now, i want to touch on an issue one breadwinner family had 40 that i know is controversial years ago. Here in West Virginia, but it is something is wrong with our economy. An issue that i deal with all over the country and im not [applause] going to tell you anything different than i say in vermont or california. A member of the in America Today, in firman, West Virginia, you have people working not one job, they are u. S. Senate committee on the working two jobs, three jobs. Environment, i have talked to you ha